VIRTUALENV FOR WINDOWS

LOGICALLY ABSTRACTING YOUR PYTHON PROJECTS FOR WINDOWS

# VirtualEnv for Windows
Some **windows** machines operate differently than what is described in the docs so I wrote this out to outline using `virtualenv` for **Windows**
## Running Python through command line
I am going off of the command prompt for this quick runthrough. Other option is `Powershell`, but I haven't used that so it won't be covered. You should have downloaded `Python3.X` and set the environment path set on your computer. Once you have done so check to see if you did it correctly by running python as such:
> python
### Terminal Output
Python 3.5.2 (v3.5.2:4def2a2901a5, Jun 25 2016, 22:01:18) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
## Installing 3rd Party Packages
Python utilizes `pip` which should already come installed, the biggest difference I found between **Windows** and Unix is this section.
So normally for Unix you would use the following command (I'll use `virtualenv` as an example):
> pip install virtualenv
But when I utilized this I would get the following error code:
'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
## **Windows** way
Therefore I googled a lot and found a solution that worked for my **windows** machine!
python -m pip install virtualenv
## Creating virtualenv Environment
python -m virtualenv venv
## Activating Environment
This was the tricky part, when activating you will be using a different file source than Unix machines. Important to note that you will be utilizing backslashes for the directories, which gave me a lot of grievances when trying to activate my virtual environment.
> venv\Scripts\activate.bat
### Terminal Output
(venv) >
Then you do the usual `virtualenv` stuff like
(venv) > pip freeze > requirements.txt
And to deactivate you simply type:
(venv) > deactivate
## Deleting virtualenv
The **windows** command to delete the `virtualenv` is:
> rmdir /s /q venv
### Notes
Important to note that when inside the virtual environment `pip` works using the Unix structure. I may have set up my python wrong for my **windows** machine but finding a workaround for setting up environments and installing packages works so I will leave it as is until someone points out the error of my ways.
Success!

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Here is virtualenv for Mac & Ubuntu: https://www.inertia7.com/projects/1by david | 1 year ago